Gerry's plaque in the mail, other progress

I finally finished Gerry's plaque and mailed it off.

I'm on Page 670 of the Brothers Karamazov. Just 50 pages to go; I'm quite determined to finish this book this week. However, I'm also taking a website development course with a lot of reading. Maybe I'll focus on Brothers this week and then dive into the HTML books.

I'm adding two more goals related to the course: learning to build and edit websites (yeah, I learned it once before, but things have changed), and creating a family history site. I'll use that as the final project of my course.

My blogging has been really good. Two more posts, and I will have reached the goal.

I've made some progress in finding a regular second gig or a full-time job. I've applied for a couple of full-time things, and last week I had an interview with Bruce's company Access to write freelance for them. I will consider that accomplished if I bill them at least 35 hours a month for three consecutive months. But short of that, I need to keep looking. I'll also consider it accomplished if my freelance income from all sources exceeds $1300 a month before taxes for 3 months.

The guy at Military History asked me to contact him again next week. If he takes the story, I'll consider the SACO story accomplished. If he doesn't, I'll pitch it to another magazine, and consider it accomplished whether that pub takes it or not.